A supergroup of some of the country’s best-known cartoonists is sticking two fingers up to the Government with a colouring book that’s to be given free to refugee children when they arrive in the UK.
They were inspired by immigration minister Robert Jenrick’s orders to paint over a mural of characters including Mickey Mouse at an asylum seeker reception centre in Kent earlier this year. Artists such as Quentin Blake, Ralph Steadman, Terry Gilliam and Posy Simmonds are among 50 names who have contributed to the “Welcome to Britain” project. The staff from the Beano mag also helped. The group are doing an initial print run of 1,700 books to be handed out at refugee centres, before bringing out a sale book for Christmas. The proceeds will go to charity.
